Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition
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Chicago comic geek, author of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE: The Definitive Edition
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My GN MAE: The Definitive Edition got picked as a 2026 Illinois Reads book for teens! I'll more library and school talks in the coming year. First up, I'll be at the Vigo County Public Library (IN) for their free comic con this Saturday.
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Last time this went around my answer was “transferring a phone call for Elton John” but this time I’m gonna go with “seeing the same movie as David Byrne twice in a week.”
What is YOUR most mundane celebrity encounter?
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
February 13, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Last time this went around my answer was “transferring a phone call for Elton John” but this time I’m gonna go with “seeing the same movie as David Byrne twice in a week.”
Jim Zub: "...The original comic artists have better construction, more nuanced and confident line work, and they actually created the damn work themselves."
Screenshot from the Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein Flickr account.
Screenshot from the Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein Flickr account.
February 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Jim Zub: "...The original comic artists have better construction, more nuanced and confident line work, and they actually created the damn work themselves."
Screenshot from the Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein Flickr account.
Screenshot from the Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein Flickr account.
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The number of people who have tried to get me to talk about 3D printed guns on here lately is super weird. Idk if you're feds or clueless or clueless feds, but even if I was stupid enough to engage? I've never touched a gun and never will. Your self-implicating princess is in another castle.
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
The number of people who have tried to get me to talk about 3D printed guns on here lately is super weird. Idk if you're feds or clueless or clueless feds, but even if I was stupid enough to engage? I've never touched a gun and never will. Your self-implicating princess is in another castle.
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On the left is the ICE concentration camp near El Paso. On the right is an industrial chicken farm in Maryland. Do you know what happens when bird flu breaks out in the latter complex? Remember that Anne Frank died from typhus in a concentration camp, not poison gas.
February 13, 2026 at 1:58 PM
On the left is the ICE concentration camp near El Paso. On the right is an industrial chicken farm in Maryland. Do you know what happens when bird flu breaks out in the latter complex? Remember that Anne Frank died from typhus in a concentration camp, not poison gas.
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I’d campaign my ass off for her. I don’t agree with every choice she’s made in every circumstance. But just that she comes from a working class background and has not let four terms in Congress swing her to the middle says a lot about her integrity. She’s also a great communicator.
anybody currently raging about Newsom needs to be stopped better get on board or I might think your outrage is a tad performative
February 13, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I’d campaign my ass off for her. I don’t agree with every choice she’s made in every circumstance. But just that she comes from a working class background and has not let four terms in Congress swing her to the middle says a lot about her integrity. She’s also a great communicator.
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A 45-year-old man has been charged with two counts of assault after getting into a fistfight with a group of Texas teenagers who were protesting Immigration Customs and Enforcement.
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45-Year-Old Man Beaten Up By High Schoolers After Allegedly Attacking Them During ICE Walkout
A Texas man has been charged after getting into a fistfight with a group of teenagers who staged an ICE walkout
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February 5, 2026 at 5:11 PM
A 45-year-old man has been charged with two counts of assault after getting into a fistfight with a group of Texas teenagers who were protesting Immigration Customs and Enforcement.
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ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week.
Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.
Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.
February 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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Live thread from Wed press conference of Marimar Martínez & her lawyer. She's the Chicagoan who survived the Border Patrol ramming her car & shooting her 5 times. They justified shooting by claiming she rammed them, and other lies exposed in video, incident reports etc. Chi Sun-Times' Jon Seidel.
Parente says there's an FBI report in which BP agent Charles Exum says he "veered into" Martinez "to create space."
"That is completely inconsistent with Marimar hitting them," Parente says.
In this screenshot, you can see Exum's steering wheel turned to the left, toward Martinez's car.
"That is completely inconsistent with Marimar hitting them," Parente says.
In this screenshot, you can see Exum's steering wheel turned to the left, toward Martinez's car.
February 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Live thread from Wed press conference of Marimar Martínez & her lawyer. She's the Chicagoan who survived the Border Patrol ramming her car & shooting her 5 times. They justified shooting by claiming she rammed them, and other lies exposed in video, incident reports etc. Chi Sun-Times' Jon Seidel.
Insight filled thread on small town folks’ terror of Big Cities like New York and… El Paso TX, pop 680K. By Amanda Marcotte, senior politics writer at @Salon.com.
It's true! Right-wingers really do start to believe their own bullshit about big cities.
I remember when my parents first visited me in NYC. They were legit terrified of the subway.
When they got on and saw how normal it was, they were genuinely shocked.
www.salon.com/2026/02/10/s...
I remember when my parents first visited me in NYC. They were legit terrified of the subway.
When they got on and saw how normal it was, they were genuinely shocked.
www.salon.com/2026/02/10/s...
Super Bowl bursts popular right-wing media myth
Conservative commentators and podcast bros backtrack on what they've said about San Francisco
www.salon.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Insight filled thread on small town folks’ terror of Big Cities like New York and… El Paso TX, pop 680K. By Amanda Marcotte, senior politics writer at @Salon.com.
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The racist crash outs from white celebrities who are no longer relevant (or good) has been astounding. Bud, people haven't stopped caring about you because you're white. It's because you suck now. New white celebrities are made every day.
February 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
The racist crash outs from white celebrities who are no longer relevant (or good) has been astounding. Bud, people haven't stopped caring about you because you're white. It's because you suck now. New white celebrities are made every day.
While I'm so pissed it was renamed, I'll be so happy when it truly is a memorial to TWO dead presidents.
February 10, 2026 at 4:10 AM
While I'm so pissed it was renamed, I'll be so happy when it truly is a memorial to TWO dead presidents.
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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"we fired all of our Black and Brown journalists and media critics and for some reason are writing bad articles about the Bad Bunny halftime show"
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 PM
"we fired all of our Black and Brown journalists and media critics and for some reason are writing bad articles about the Bad Bunny halftime show"
Author & organizer Kelly Hayes: “…I encountered someone who said that explaining to people why the hats ‘weren't helpful’ was ‘exhausting.’ Friends, if this is how you are exhausting yourselves, you aren't doing the movement any favors. I am tired, too, but more fruitfully so…” kellyhayes.org
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Author & organizer Kelly Hayes: “…I encountered someone who said that explaining to people why the hats ‘weren't helpful’ was ‘exhausting.’ Friends, if this is how you are exhausting yourselves, you aren't doing the movement any favors. I am tired, too, but more fruitfully so…” kellyhayes.org
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These people are idiots.
Also, he must have got the message that Benito is a huge part of a big Trumpy corporation that his family does a lot of business with.
Also, he must have got the message that Benito is a huge part of a big Trumpy corporation that his family does a lot of business with.
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
These people are idiots.
Also, he must have got the message that Benito is a huge part of a big Trumpy corporation that his family does a lot of business with.
Also, he must have got the message that Benito is a huge part of a big Trumpy corporation that his family does a lot of business with.
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In short, badmouth Puerto Rico and I will punch you so hard your glottis will fall out and run away and join the circus.
February 9, 2026 at 2:32 PM
In short, badmouth Puerto Rico and I will punch you so hard your glottis will fall out and run away and join the circus.
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Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
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Unidos somos América.
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Unidos somos América.
There’s only one channel on US television showing the Super Bowl. Watch a different one. Or crash a watch party for the wings and beer and read a trashy book until everyone cheers or groans!
In advance of the inevitable complaining about the Super Bowl I’m gonna politely suggest a “shhhh let people enjoy things.”
February 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
There’s only one channel on US television showing the Super Bowl. Watch a different one. Or crash a watch party for the wings and beer and read a trashy book until everyone cheers or groans!
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Here is the spirit of the “neighborism” that is resisting Trumpism: Solidarity with those targeted by the regime is imperative. For we bear responsibility. We are not just all at risk. We are all implicated.
Outside a city council meeting, a woman held up a sign:
“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”
Outside a city council meeting, a woman held up a sign:
“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”
February 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Here is the spirit of the “neighborism” that is resisting Trumpism: Solidarity with those targeted by the regime is imperative. For we bear responsibility. We are not just all at risk. We are all implicated.
Outside a city council meeting, a woman held up a sign:
“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”
Outside a city council meeting, a woman held up a sign:
“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”
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MLMLLM
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 10:27 PM
MLMLLM
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The Super Bowl is a prominent pat of American culture that we enjoy in many different ways, from getting together with friends to watch it to announcing publicly that we will not be watching it and don‘t even watch football at all.
February 8, 2026 at 10:28 PM
The Super Bowl is a prominent pat of American culture that we enjoy in many different ways, from getting together with friends to watch it to announcing publicly that we will not be watching it and don‘t even watch football at all.
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ICE all over Northside this morning. Almost like they need to get their shift in before the Super Bowl.
February 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM
ICE all over Northside this morning. Almost like they need to get their shift in before the Super Bowl.